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Perfidia is the first volume of the Second L.A. Quartet. The L.A. Quartet–The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz–covers the years 1946 to 1958 in Los Angeles. The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy–American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s a Rover–covers 1958 to 1972, on a national scale.
It was probably a bad idea to pen a sequel to American Tabloid, but James Ellroy did it anyway and came up with another great one, The Cold Six Thousand. It was probably a bad idea to add another book and make a trilogy (Underworld USA) out of it, but James Ellroy did it […]
James Ellroy’s sequel to American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, has left more than a few readers frustrated. The style is a problem for many. As Ellroy says: The style I developed for The Cold Six Thousand is a direct, shorter-rather-than-longer sentence style that’s declarative and […]
I found out a couple of weeks back that Blood’s a Rover, the final installment in James Ellroy’s Underworld USA trilogy, is coming out next month. This meant it was time to re-read American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand. When I held both volumes in my hands […] |
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